In Episode 43, Pierson and Bilal come fresh off the a16z Generative Media Video Hackathon - and they built some wild stuff.

Bilal went from a prompt to a full AI-generated podcast: custom avatars, Gemini TTS voices, lip-synced video, and live infographics pulled by deep research. All stitched together programmatically. Pierson built something different — an AI producer that joins your recording call as a guest, listens for a wake word, and pulls up images, search results, or visuals on a live canvas. Think: Jamie from Joe Rogan, but agentic.

From there they get into:

• GPT Realtime 2 — real-time transcription, translation, and a voice API that stays listening even when "asleep"
• The shift from AI writing code to AI owning features — and what engineering responsibility looks like in that world
• AI-generated anime breaking the last creative barrier humans thought they had
• XAI dissolving into SpaceX, Elon's Colossus One deal with Anthropic, and what it means for Claude Code limits
• Micro datacenters — Nvidia Blackwell chips mounted in your garage via SPAN's XFRA
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 43 & The a16z Generative Media Hackathon 04:00 Bilal's Build: Prompt to Full AI Podcast with Avatars 10:30 Pierson's Build: An AI Producer That Joins Your Call Live
20:00 GPT Realtime 2 & the Always-On AI Future
31:00 AI Anime, Creativity & the Last Human Bastion
37:00 XAI, Anthropic's Colossus Deal & Micro Data centers

🔗 Links mentioned:

• GPT Realtime API: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime
• Sin Citium anime: https://x.com/Cont_animation/status/2051296715781619829
• SPAN Micro Datacenters x Nvidia: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414372626/en/SPAN-Announces-XFRA-a-Distributed-Data-Center-Solution-to-Close-the-Speed-to-Power-Gap-for-AI-Compute-Demand
  

🐦 Follow the hosts:

• Pierson → https://x.com/piersonmarks
• Bilal → https://x.com/deepwhitman
  
  

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